The 2014 World Series is being painted as a clash between two very different baseball clubs, but not for the right reasons. This has been a tiresome storyline that practically writes itself (and is doing so over and over again). Here’s the party line: what we have is the veteran San Francisco Giants and their […]

After splitting the first two National League Championship games in St. Louis the Giants and Cardinals will get busy with three at AT&T Park and potentially two additional contests at Busch Stadium. This series has been a battle of home runs (Cards) versus starting pitching (Gigantes), but that will change over the next three days. […]

The San Francisco Giants are now a team unified and driven. They won the Wild Card playoff against the Pittsburgh Pirates (a better team), and they’ve taken the first two in the five game NLDS series against the Washington Nationals (a much better team). And I know the following logic, and I don’t disagree with […]

Let’s make a couple of Del Maguey Vida Mezcal margaritas and take a close look at several logical end-of-the-season givens. The first given is that Los Angeles Dodgers will hold off the San Francisco Giants and take the National League West title. A logical second given is the Giants will continue their semi-superglue hold on […]

The cliche from virtually all of the local baseball sports media this week is a variation on the following: This is is the way it should be– the Giants and Dodgers going head-to-head in mid-September with the National League West Division title on the line. What, everyone is asking each other mindlessly, could be better? […]

Over the past two+ weeks the San Francisco Giants have gone 7-4 against the Chicago Cubs, Philadelphia Phillies, and Colorado Rockies. The Cubs have been rebuilding since 1909, and a number of Philadelphia players have recently qualified to receive Social Security benefits. The disintegrating-before-your-eyes Rockies are a team playing with four of their top hitters […]

The San Francisco Giants will finish this critical month of August playing twelve games: six against quality teams (3 each with the Washington Nationals and Milwaukee Brewers) and six against sub-.500 teams (2 against the Cubs and 4 with the Colorado Rockies). With the Dodgers three games ahead in the NL West Division and Atlanta […]

The race for two National League Wild Card slots is about to round third base, pound down the line and make a head-first slide at home plate. If the Nationals, Dodgers, and Brewers hold on to their Division leads over the next seven and a half weeks, three NL teams have a great shot to […]

Three National League teams contending for either a Division title or one of two Wild Card spots traded for a second baseman in the final days and hours leading up to the 2014 non-waiver trade deadline. None of those teams were the San Francisco Giants. Just as he did at the July 2013 trading deadline, […]

There’s a point just before the annual July 31st non-waiver trade deadline when desperate teams pull the trigger on the deal that’s directly in front of them. Today’s San Francisco Giants/Boston Red Sox trade definitely has that feel to it. The Giants traded their MLB-rated #2 minor league prospect, left-handed starter Edwin Escobar, and their […]

I have maintained throughout the first four months of the season that the San Francisco Giants have over performed. That the total of their success does not match the sum of their parts. But so far that hasn’t stopped them from winning baseball games. The fact that the Giants’ 2014 performance has exceeded expectations is […]

When the Atlanta Braves released declining veteran second baseman Dan Uggla on July 18, 2014, it only took three days for San Francisco Giants General Manager Brian Sabean to sign Uggla to a minor league contract. When you look at Sabean’s long history of reclamation projects featuring fading veteran ball players, the real surprise here […]

The search for the identity of the 2014 San Francisco Giants has been a ninety-five game exercise in futility. It may just be that it’s the struggle to find this team’s identity that best defines who they are: inconsistent, contradictory, at times winning and at times mediocre. San Francisco is a team resistant to definition, […]

The clock is running on the July 31st non-waiver trade deadline and inside the San Francisco Giants front office that ticking noise must sound like thunder. And well it should. The Giants have a rare opportunity, right now, not only to improve their 25 man roster on the off chance they grab a Wild Card […]

That the San Francisco Giants 2014 season has taken a major nosedive isn’t surprising. When we look back on this season, the surprising thing is that this team went 36-20 in March/April/May, and specifically had a remarkable 19-9 May. One of the strangest things we see when an MLB team over-performs in the first two […]